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The Pasadena Chamber of Commerce Foundation (PCCF) announced today a $75,000 donation from Southern California Gas Co.
There was no official alert about the wildfire barreling toward the mountainous community of Altadena, California, Erion Taylor remembers. Instead, she got a text from her neighborhood group chat ...
Kevin Devine stands in front of his destroyed home in the Altadena area in Los Angeles, California. Devine and thousands of other lost their homes to the Eaton Fire.
Altadena has avoided California’s fire insurance hell. That won’t last. As they rebuild, residents of the middle-class enclave could face steep price hikes.
Altadena, California, was among Los Angeles County's first Black middle-class enclaves. Some fear recent wildfires may have erased that legacy.
In 2015 the median price for a detached single-family home in Altadena’s 91001 ZIP Code was about $500,000. In the increasingly elite Silver Lake, similar digs would have cost about $1.4 million.
In the wake of the devastating Eaton fire that tore through Altadena, California, in January, hundreds of signs sprouted up in the ash-laden yards of burned-down homes: "Altadena Not for Sale." ...
ALTADENA, Calif. (KABC) -- Time stopped on Jan. 7, 2025, in the town of Altadena, California. That evening, hurricane-force winds propelled the Eaton Fire through the 42,000-person town in Los ...
ALTADENA, California (KCAL, KCBS) — A husband-and-wife duo crafted a plan to recapture the eclectic essence of Altadena architecture while also capping homeowners’ rebuilding costs. “We came ...
A home destroyed by the Eaton fire, located at 3319 Lake Ave., in Altadena, California, is for sale, on June 4, 2025. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times/TNS) Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times/TNS.
Most residents of middle-class Altadena could get fire insurance, but that is likely to change as residents rebuild and face price hikes. Altadena has avoided California’s fire insurance hell ...